In a few days, the siren will sound that will open the Holocaust memorial events.
But these are the days when we do not need the traditional "memory" siren to be unique, as individuals or as a public, with the memory of the six million.
Because there is and the term "Holocaust" also applies to it just on weekdays, those few days in the calendar that are devoid of ceremonies and speeches.
Everything that happens, and not so far from here, will be reminiscent of the Holocaust, even without this time killing more Jewish lives.
Terrible deeds towards human beings are not uncommon, unfortunately.
These are events that have not been called the "Holocaust," despite the extermination of many innocents.
Vladimir Putin, the leader of a country that suffered endless destruction during World War II, is behaving these days as in those dark days, when he ordered his army to destroy cities in Ukraine to the ground and destroy their inhabitants.
There will be those who will respond in a tone of protest and say - the Holocaust was a unique event.
Therefore, the events in Ukraine should not be authorized or compared these days to the days of the extermination of a third of the Jewish people in World War II.
The purpose of this advice is to keep the term "Holocaust" away from any other inhuman phenomenon, mass and horrifying as it may be.
But the removal of the rhetorical buffer finds it difficult to stand the test of horrible reality, then and now.
The reality that took place during the Holocaust has already been assimilated into the consciousness of the year 2022.
The routine of rhetoric designed to mention, tell and even draw lessons from crimes, is the domain of many events.
The common saying "Never again!"
Suitable for other monstrous events, which do not dare to place under the heading "Holocaust".
The city of Bocha, a neighbor of Kyiv, was destroyed by the Russian army, even in a manner reminiscent of Nazi aktions.
The inhabitants of the cities of Bocha and Mariupol were not killed by gas chambers, in these two cities no six million were murdered, no crematoria were erected for murdered corpses.
But even if not all of these atrocities were committed - it is likely that a figure of many tens of thousands of murdered will certainly be reminiscent of the Holocaust.
A stranger who walks among the remains of the massacre in Bocha will surely say to himself, at the sight of the ruins and the erasure of the city, that the murderers from among the Russian army acted like the Nazis.
Indeed, in my opinion, the nickname "Holocaust" is not exclusively appropriate only to the mass extermination of our people.
The murderers' commanders must face a second edition of the Nuremberg trials.
And today is International Armenian Holocaust Remembrance Day.
holocaust?
Armenian?
It was the mass extermination of more than a million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire.
The elimination of the six million will only be reminiscent of the precedent of the mass extermination of a million and more Armenians.
The intensity of a "Holocaust," Jewish or Armenian, or one carried out in Rwanda, will not be measured solely by numbers.
Because the Holocaust is supposed to be a nickname for a moral warning sign designed to restrain leaders - whatever their religion.
This is the sign that failed in 2022 to fulfill its mission.
Were we wrong?
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